Adebayo Adelabu, the minister of power has announced a 25 per cent increase the Nigeria’s power generation, stating that this has occurred within one year of his appointment to head the ministry.
Adelabu disclosed this at the inaugural meeting of the Inter-Ministerial Power Sector Working Group held in Abuja on Wednesday.
According to him, the power sector remains a major driver of national economic growth, stressing the need for collaboration in tackling the challenges that could hinder the power sector from achieving its full potential.
“The capacity before now had always hovered around 4000 megawatts or below. But within a year of taking over, we have had about 25 per cent increase. We are actually on the track towards achieving the President’s instruction to us that by the end of December, we must achieve a landmark generation and transmission of 6000 megawatts.”
Speaking on the mandate of the ministerial working group, the Minister noted that the generation, transmission and distribution of power cannot be left alone to the Ministry and its agencies adding that there are lots of supportive ministries without which the sector’s mandate cannot be achieved.
“We will not only focus on generation and transmission but also distribute it to the doorsteps of households, of businesses, of institutions and of industries in Nigeria. So that they can feel the reforms and transformation in the power sector.
“We now felt we needed to bring ourselves together in a formal, official setting where all these issues would be discussed and everybody would be on the same page.”
